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Okamoto, Shigeko – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
Through a reexamination of the relationship between politeness and femininity in Japanese, this study considers some of the major theoretical issues concerning linguistic politeness in general. While politeness has been regarded as a central feature of Japanese women's speech, recent research has shown that politeness is a speech norm for women,…
Descriptors: Japanese, Pragmatics, Females, Social Behavior